Scope and Contents Biographical sketches of Niels Petersen and Mary Mortensen Petersen, by Joseph Lorenzo Petersen. Bound volume. 19 pages. Niels Petersen, born in Denmark, always had a desire to live in America. In 1867 he landed in New York and learned that the railroad was being built across the continent. He got employment on the railroad and headed West. He crossed the country as far as Utah by May 1869 and was present at Promontory when the Golden Spike was driven. From Utah he went to Nevada, California,...

Scope and Contents Sketch of the life of Brigham Stowell compiled for the Stowell reunion held April 23, 1966. April 24, 1854: Brigham Stowell was born in Fillmore, Utah. His father worked on the State House for Utah Territory. Congress had appropriated 20,000 dollars for the building. 1855: The family moved back to Bingham's Fort (a few miles from Ogden). They suffered from the loss of crops from the...

Scope and Contents Extracted entries covering many important events of Snowflake Stake and some information on the United Order in Parowan Stake. The John D. Lee trial is included.

Scope and Contents From the introduction, by Silas Leavitt Fish, it is learned the journal from which this typescript was made was copied by Joseph Fish into a large leather-bound record book of 480 pages. He copied the journal from the beginning "amplifying much of it." The book was filled in 1895 and a small record book of 202 pages served for his entries from 1896-1919. These two record books are contained in the typescript copy. ...

Scope and Contents History of the Eastern Arizona Stake of Zion and of the Establishment of the Snowflake Stake. When the Eastern Arizona Stake of Zion was organized June 28 and 29, 1879, Joseph Fish was chosen stake recorder. This position he held for about fourteen years. Besides keeping the stake records and taking minutes of stake functions, he began in a separate book, a history of the organization and growth of the wards and the stake as a whole. Joseph Fish wrote this...

Scope and Contents Historical notes made by George S. Tanner on the Eastern Arizona Stake and the establishment of the Snowflake Stake.

Scope and Contents "Diamond Jubilee Gems--Snowflake Stake of Zion," compiled by Jocie B. Tenney, et al. 1 bound volume, n.p. This volume was compiled from stories collected from the wards of Snowflake Stake of Zion and covers the period 1887-1962. The stories are those handed down orally and taken from diaries. They relate incidents in the lives of the settlers.